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The Mr Beast

To me there are two parts there's the employee with minor issues, and his production side issues. I'm curious on Saagar's view as a media CEO. From working on production I understand behind the scenes a lot of stuff that actually makes it on camera might not be "real". CGI, grabbing a PA to fill a spot on the frame, producers making things the way they want. As full scale productions and independent productions merge I'm curious when all of the regulations that govern TV are going to apply to the internet.

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What mind your business means to me

To me the mind your own business line is a call back to when everything was not national level. Nobody is advocating for porn in libraries on a national level. A random community has that then it's up to the local community to remedy that It's not a national issue. If you don't like a book don't read it, if you don't like a show don't watch it, if you don't like a store for the products they hold don't go to it but stop making everything national when it's usually region determined.

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RE: Something Interesting

Your recent RE: Something Interesting on racial demographics in American electoral politics was super good, I loved listening to it. To be honest, I could have listened to another hour of back on forth since it's such a wide sprawling topic. Great job.

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Who do you want to win the election?

Why don't both of you take off your analyst hats for a second and talk about who you'd like to win the election from a purely personal, prescriptive, normative lens. It might be a nice break of pace from the usual political analysis.

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How To Think About China

I was listening to an episode of Jim Pethokoukis' podcast and he asked his guest how they think about China in the context of trying to achieve growth through trade policy over the next coming years and decades. Jim pointed out that it's hard to imagine a future where somehow China is cut out of future trade with the West, considering it's a billion people, and has such a mass industrial base in the world economy. How should we think about this? Even if China invaded Taiwan, would we be able to cut them out of our trade network after the conflict? Would that be possible, or politically feasible?